Glass-working apparatus.



A. E. SPINASSE.

GLASS WORKING APPARATUS. APPLICATION FILED OCT- 30. $909.

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A. E. SPBNASSE.

GLASS WORKING APPARATUS.

APPLICATION FILED OCT. 30. 1909.

Patented J. 4, 1916.

2 SHEETS-GUEST 2- which I have imparted will appear, such UNITED STATES ATNT FFTQt MOUNT VERNON, OHIO, OF PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA. A CORPORATION OF PENNSYL- ASSIGNOR TO PITTSBURGH PLATE 7?; (2H whom, it may concern. Be it known that I, ARTHUR E SmNAssE, a citizen of, the United'States, residing at Mount Vernon, in the county of Knox and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Glassorking Apparatus, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to improvements in glass working apparatus and has particular reference to the source of drawing to desirable accessory features to further the ultimate production of a superior product.

One feature of importance in my invention arises from the provision of walls, for a relatively movable tank and hood, Whose edges are mitered. From this construction many advantages arise and some of these will appear hereinafter.

Another feature of importance in my 1nvention consists in the provision of a sealing'el'eme nt betweenthe relatively movable hood 351d tank which may vary its superficial' contour to compensate for irregularities in the meeting edges of the tank and hood. The substance of this variable medium. under preferred conditions,'is sand or other granular material and it may be noted that the danger of cracking which is terial is obviated with such a sealing shelf.

y invention further contemplates the provision of an improved means for transferring molten glass from a supply tank to a delivery tank. The advantage of this means will appear when. it is considered that pure undisturbed glass may be secured and delivered with practically no danger of material loss of glass in the event of ac-. cident to the delivery element.

Other features of material improvement as a means for presenting a drawing surface of one tank to a workman while the drawing surface of an adiacent tank is being subjected to reducing heat in preparation for use while the first drawing surface is withdrawn into a zone of reducing heat.

Various other features of value and importance will appear as the description progresses.

With these and ther in view. the invention novel combinations of incidental objects consists in certain parts, a preferred Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 4, 1916.

lipplicationflled October 30, 1909. Serial N 0. 525,428.

form of embodiment of which is shown in the accompanying drawings forming part a detailed sectional view of a portion of the of the ring or float;

tank and hood and Figs. 4 and 5 show the spout connecting delivery tank,

sectionalizcd views of the supply tank to the and Fig. 6 shows a hor1zontal section through a hood having a duplex arrangement of movable. tanks.

he general form of apparatus comprising the hood and movable tank is similar to that which is shown and my Patent No. 921,747 issued May 18, 1909, but it is to be understood that certain of these improvements are applicable to other forms of glass working apparatus. and that certain features are likewise applicable to any arrangement in which there is relative movement betweenthe hood and the tank.

eference may be had to said patent for a description of a general operation of a glass working apparatus having a movable tank of the sort referred to.

Referring now to the drawings above described, in Fig. 1 the stationary hood Q0 surmounts the movable tank 21. The hood is semi-cylindrical in shape. and is suitably constructed to confine the heat therein so supply heat to the inte rior of the hood. If desired, the hood may described in surmount a stationary supplv tank containing molten glass. and delivering said molten glass by means of a connecting spout 23 to the movable tank 21.

The tank 21 is divided into compartments by walls 24 which are suitably apertured to permit the molten glass to flow freelv from the middle compartment to the outside or raring compartments 25-. In Fig. 1 the tank is shown shifted to the left so as to expose the lefthand compartment 25. and a cylinder of glass is shown in dotted lines in the process of being lifted or drawn from this compartment.

The lower edges of the hood 20 are inclined dow wardly. as at 26. and the Walls 24 are giv n a corresponding inclination 27 of the glass in compartment in Figs. 1

. and 3, may assist in this operation of constructing the lower end of the glass cylinder as justreferred to, in that the movement of the tank to the right draws the float against the side of the glass cylinder and assists'in the collapse of the same.

As shown in Fig. 1, the glass cylinder in being drawn is surrounded by several burners 31 which are suitably mounted and arranged to be shifted in direction so as to correct any imperfections in the glass as the cylinder is drawn.

Referring again to the laterally movable tank 21, it will be seen in Fig. 1 that this tank is? mounted on rollers or wheels so as to travel upon a track 40 carried upon a frame 41, which in turn has rollers traveling upon a track 42 at right angles to the track 40 so that thereby the laterally shifting tank can-be moved transversely to its own path of travel and out from under the hood by means of the track 42.

In Fig. 2 the hood is shown of slightly different shape, being somewhat more flattened, and the movable tank is shown provided with an extension flange or shelf 50. On the surface of this shelf there is spread a covering or layer of non-conducting material in granular or pulverulent form, such as sand 51. This shelf performs the function of the flanges52 shown in Fig.

1,in that when the tank is shifted laterally so as to expose .one compartment or the other, the'contact-of the lower portion 53 of the hood ".with the sand on this shelf prevents the escape'of heat from the interior of the hood. It will of course be understood,

as, in my aforesaid patent, that the tank -is shifted from one side to the other,

the drawing operations being performed al- 'ternately so as to heat the glassin onecom partment,whi1 the other compartment is exposed for drawing.

. It will be understood that this shelf 50,

vjust above described, .could be utilized in other. forms of construction where there is relatlve movement between the hood andthe tank, such for example as where the tank is' stationary and the hood is movable; or the shelf itself might be supported upon an in,

dependent truck 54, as shown in dotted lines in fldig. 2.

There is also shown in a novel.

means of drawing air into the interior of the bait or cylinder after the drawing operation has begun. In this case the chamber 25 has a central tube formed therein, and up through this tube there extend two pipes (31 and (32, the former being telescoped within the latter. At the top of the pipe 61 there is an air deflecting plate 6 5, and there are apertures or formed in the pipe (31v just below this plate so as to permit the flow of air therethrough.

By the use of the usual air suction and air compression apparatus these pipes may be used to supply air to 01' withdraw it from within the glass cylinder (J5, shown in dotted lines in Fig. 2, after the bait (it has been brought down in contact with the glass and the glass cylinder raised. (This bait would of course be used outside the hood). For example, pipe 61 may be used to supply air to the interior of the cylinder, and the pipe may be used for a surtion pipe to withdraw air from the cylinder, the direr tion of the air flow being shown by the ar rows in Fig.2. These pipes are to have flexible connecting pipes to permit the movement of the tank.

\Vhen the bait is first brought in contact with the surface of the molten glass, the said tube 60 and deflecting plate (33 being inclosed within. the interior of the bait in that position, the air suction through the pipe (32 may be utilized to raise the glass within the bait, and then the pipe 61 to force air into the cylindcrand keep the cylinder at the desired shape.

It will be seen that this deflecting plate 63 serves to deflect the incoming air current to the source of drawing, that is, the junction between the upper surface of the molten glass and the cylinder.

This arrangement possesses the great advantage 'of enabling the operator to control the air pressure within the bait and cylinder byv means of theseair tubes el'ltirely independently of any air tubes through the bait .itself, and the deflecting plate serves to con trol this air at the junction point above referred to.

the supply tank 7 O. The other end 73 likewise is inclined downward 'so as to deliver theglass to a point near the surface of the glass within the movable tank. This downward inclination of the spout withiuthe supply tank prevents the delivery of impurit es from the supplytank into the working .tank or movable tank 21. ,Such impurities will lodge themselves above the projecting G, and from therethey may be skimmed off in any suitable manner. The pure glass below will therefore take its course through. the spout and will -be smoothly delivered close to the surface of the metal in the working tank. If desired, an opening 75 may be providedin the spout to deliver heat to the surface of the glass in its course through the spout.-

Another advantage of this particular form of spout is that the surface of the glass through the spout is but slightly raised above the outside retaining wall of the sup ply tank so the tank only a small quantity could overflow. This form of spout has the double advantage of of the glass, same time and at the having vthe lex'el of flow rest only slightly above the level of the retaining wall ofthe tank; that is, that portion of the wall within which the compartments,

spout is situated.

In Fig. 5 a similar form of spout is shown having a dmvmvardly projecting por- 'tion72, but in this case the delivery end of the spout 73 has its lower wall inclined upward, and its upper wall broken away so that themolten glass is above this delivery spout 73 In Fig. 6 I have shown a. duplex arrangement of-tanks in whichthere are two mov able working tanksarranged to be alternately exposed at opposite sides. The first tank 80 is adjacent to the supply tank and connected therewith by a spout 81 which delivers the molten glass into the tank 80. The tank may be shifted to the lefthand to expose the compartments 82 while the compartments 83 are being heated beneath the hood 84, or the tank may be shifted to the righthand so as to reverse these positions and expose the drawing on the left and compartments 93 of the second' tank on the right, and then on the shifting of the tanks, after the drawing operation has taken place fromboth sets of the first tank has the compartments 83 exposed and the second tank the compartinents92 exposed. This makes it possible to have one set of workmen constantly remain on the one side of the duplex .ing compartments, said partitions being that in the event of breakage of avoiding surface impurities ment between the tank .walls of said hood and arrangement of tanks, first operating one tank and then the other and another set on the opposite side of the tank operating simi- 1. In a glass working apparatus, the combination with a tank, of a hood, said tank and hood being relatively movable, partitions'in said tank forming a main and drawtended upward to overlap the end walls of said hood when in certain positions of adjustment.

- 2. In a glass working apparatus, the combination with a tank, of a hood, said tank and hood being relatively movable, partitions in saidtank forming a main and drawing tanks, said partitions being extended upwardly and mitered, the Walls of said hood having their edges miteredto overlap said mitered partitions.

3 In a glass working apparatus, the combination with a tank having a'main and drawing compartments, of a hood, said tank and hood being relatively movable to alter nately expose said drawing compartments, inclinededges 0n the walls of said hood, and complemental overlapping inclined terminations for directing heat from within said hood downwardly into saiddrawing comportments.

4. Ina glass working apparatus, the combination with a tank having a plurality of drawing compartments, a hood, and means constructed to provide for relative moveand the hood to expose said compartments: the engaging said tank being constructed with inclined surfaces to deflect the flow of heat toward the surface of the glass within the compartment when the tank and hood are separated.

5. In a glass working apparatus, the combination with a laterally movable tank having dividing wallsseparating the tank into drawing compartments, of a hood sur mounting said tank; means constructed to provide for the lateral movement of the tank beneath the hood to expose said drawing compartments in turn; the engaging walls of said hood and said tank dividing walls having inclined surfafces directed downward to deflect the flow of heat toward the surface of the glass within the compart ment when said walls are separated.

, 6. In glass working apparatus, a glass receptacle comprising-.21. hood and tank relati vely movable and each having coacting walls with mitered edges.

In a glass working apparatus, a glass receptaclecomprising a hood and tank relatively movable and a sealing connection between the relatively movable edges of a nature to conform to variations of outline of the edges.

S. In a glass working apparatus, the combination with a tank having a drawing coinpartment, a hood and means constructed to provide for relative movement between the tank and the hood to expose said compartment for drawing; of a shelf movable in juxtaposition to the said drawing compartment and the lower wall of said hood, said shelf being provided with a-granular substance engaging with said hood wall and serving to obstruct the flow of heat between said hood wall and said tank.

9. In a glass working apparatus, the combination with a laterally movable tank pro- 'vided with a drawing compartment, of a hood surmounting said tank, and a shelf attached to said tank adjacent to said drawing said shelf being coveredv compartment, the with granular material engaged by the adjoining wall struct the flow of heat between said hood wall and said tank.

10. In glass working apparatus, a source of. drawing comprising a plurality of ad acently placed units, each embodying a tank and a hood movable relatively to .'pi'oject drawing surfaces, said units being operablg to present their drawing surfaces alternately to one workman.

11. In a glass working apparatus, the

combination with a supply tank, of duplex drawing tanks adjacent thereto, a connection between the supply tank and the first di'awglass to the latter, and a of said hood and serving to 010-.

13. In a glass working apparatus, the COI11- bination with a tank for molten glass having compartment walls formed therein for dividing the tank into separate drawing compartments, of a movable hood surmounting said tank with provisions permitting lateral shifting of the hood to selectively expose said compartments, said compartment walls extending upwardly within said hood and the outer walls of said hood extending downwardly to abut against their corresponding compartment combined area of the tank and the drawing I compartments, the said hood and tank being relatively reciprocable to alternately expose certain drawing compartments while the tank is covered.

In testimony whereofI affix my signature walls to shutoff the flow of heat from within'the hood to the exposed in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

ARTHUR E. SPINASSE.

Witnesses: HERBERT C. W001), GEORGIA G. VVoon. 

